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Hurricane Irma is going to be a real stress test for T-Mobile.

I may be guilty of belaboring the obvious but Hurricane Irma is going to be a real stress test for T-Mobile. With recovery underway from Harvey, now Irma is going to run right up the East Coast of Florida.

I imagine the emergency response team will be run thin cleaning up from Harvey and preparing for and eventually cleaning up after Irma. Same goes for the others too.
This is really the first round of severe hurricanes in years and the first since LTE has really matured and it's quite impressive how well the networks held up in Texas overall, and will be interesting to see how they hold up in FL next.

I imagine the emergency response team will be run thin cleaning up from Harvey and preparing for and eventually cleaning up after Irma. Same goes for the others too.
This is really the first round of severe hurricanes in years and the first since LTE has really matured and it's quite impressive how well the networks held up in Texas overall, and will be interesting to see how they hold up in FL next.

Harvey and Irma are two different threats.

Harvey had some wind related damage along the south TX coast, but the majority of impacted sites came from flooding, transport loss, and power loss. While many sites have on-site battery backup units to run a few hours, not all sites have generators, be it diesel or natural gas or propane. So even if the generator ran as intended for days, if the site was inaccessible due to flooding, the tanks couldn't be topped off. Or if the transport was lost, its all moot anyways.

Irmas threat is wind, and physical security of the sites is a greater risk with these. Antennas could come loose, towers could possibly fall, microwave antennas shifted, knocking out transport. On top of that, there's the ever present flood threat as well, but wind is going to be a greater cause for concern.

All of this to say, restoring power/transport after Harvey's wake can be much easier than putting up a whole new tower, or replacing radios and antennas and feeder lines lost to wind damage.

TMobile backup power has gotten better over the past few years but with a storm like that damage can be great so even the best backups can fail at that point. Hopefully it continues to weaken more before landfall

I saw on the news that one of the islands that took a direct hit had many cell towers that were snapped in half from the wind. I'm sure it's going to be a long while before those are back up and running.

Well I hope you can remain safe. Watching the reports it seems like Florida is going to be devastated

Just remember that the news media always shows the worst and tries to make you believe that it's like that everywhere. Even when the levees blew out and New Orleans flooded, there were still parts of the city that were unaffected.